History Trivia / Animorphs

* ExecutiveMeddling: Applegate and Scholastic got caught up in the post-Columbine hysteria over violence in video games and had [=SingleTrac=] revamp ''Shattered Reality'', which was at that point already a TroubledProduction.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Watch Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan, from 1982. Do those slug brain parasites - that crawl into your ear and take over your mind - seem a little familiar?

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* OlderThanTheyThink: Watch Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan, from 1982. Do those slug brain parasites - that crawl into your ear and take over your mind - seem a little familiar?familiar? Considering that Applegate is a known Trekkie, this is almost certainly not an accident.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original plan was for all the aliens to be the {{rubber forehead|Aliens}} kind, to make a then-theoretical LiveActionAdaptation easier to produce. Scholastic told Applegate to be more creative, so she made them all StarfishAliens instead. And then, of course, they tried to make a LiveActionAdaptation...

* ShoutOut: The cover of [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/animorphs/images/4/42/Animorphs_the_beginning_book_54_front_cover_hi_res.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160330014930 #54, The Beginning]] was directly inspired by the cover of [[http://jivetimerecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/stones_hotrocks.jpg The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-1971]]

* WordOfGay: [[https://twitter.com/MichaelGrantBks/status/662071118098857984 A twitter post]] from Michael Grant has stated that Marco is bisexual.

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* WordOfGay: WordOfGay: ** [[https://twitter.com/MichaelGrantBks/status/662071118098857984 A twitter post]] from Michael Grant has stated that Marco is bisexual.** Another article confirms that [[https://medium.com/@MichaelGrantBks/on-diversity-fa3cefb0e0a7 Gafinilan and Mertil]] (identified as "a pair of Andalites") from ''The Other'' were a gay couple, something heavily hinted but not stated outright in the book itself.

* AccidentallyAccurate: "In the Time of Dinosaurs" describes ''Spinosaurus'' as having shorter hindlegs than a ''Tyrannosaurus'', before discoveries in 2014 suggested this may have been true.

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* AccidentallyAccurate: AccidentallyAccurate: ** "In the Time of Dinosaurs" describes ''Spinosaurus'' as having shorter hindlegs than a ''Tyrannosaurus'', before discoveries in 2014 suggested this may have been true.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Tobias breaks the fourth wall at the end of ''In the Time of Dinosaurs'' to acknowledge that scientists dispute that several of the dinosaurs depicted in the book were alive at the end of the Cretaceous, asking the reader, who're you gonna believe, some scientists with nothing but bones, or a guy who was actually there?

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* ScienceMarchesOn: ScienceMarchesOn: ** Tobias breaks the fourth wall at the end of ''In the Time of Dinosaurs'' to acknowledge that scientists dispute that several of the dinosaurs depicted in the book were alive at the end of the Cretaceous, asking the reader, who're you gonna believe, some scientists with nothing but bones, or a guy who was actually there? Although it should be noted the ''Deinonychus'' are portrayed as featherless.

** Although after what Erek did in the second to last book, you really have to feel sorry for the real Erek King.** Why? Erek is amazing.** Because his actions helped lead to Rachel's death, and his hypocritical lecture rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Why did Jake flush the pool? In the end because he wanted the Yeerks dead. Why did Erek not share what he had learned about the Howlers? Because he wanted them dead, and used the Animorphs to do it.** Yes, that's what makes him awesome. He's a complex character who does both good things and bad things.

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